[OS X TeX] Major path puzzlement

[Stephen Moye]

Excellent idea -- that's exactly what I did in the form of an alias to 
reduce stress on a clearly limited carbon-based ROM [:+}.

On May 11, 2004, at 2:13 PM, Kai von Fintel wrote:

> On May 11, 2004, at 1:53 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:
>
>> After some work, I think that I am now back to square one -- the 
>> $PATH looks better (even to me :>}), and kpsewhich now finds 
>> texnansx.enc. The problem that otftotfm still cannot find 
>> texnansx.enc remains:
>>
>> admin 1:37pm /% kpsewhich texnansx.enc
>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/dvips/base/texnansx.enc
>>
>> admin 1:43pm /<3>Brush Script Std% otftotfm -a -e texnansx 
>> BrushScriptStd.otf -fkern Brush
>> otftotfm: encoding 'texnansx' not found
>>
>> I'm stymied.
>
> How about giving the full pathname:
>
> otftotfm -a -e 
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/dvips/base/texnansx.enc 
> BrushScriptStd.otf -fkern Brush
>
> The manual page for otftotfm says: "Otftotfm will search for 
> encoding[.enc] the same way that dvips would, so you may not need to 
> give a full pathname."
>
> Maybe *you* need to for some reason.
>
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